Improved mode of securing shoes to horses  feet



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

C. WEITMAN, OF IIAZEL'ION, IOVA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,569, dated October 4, 1864.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, C. VEITMAN, of Hazelton, in the county of Buchanan and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Securing Shoes to Horses Feet or Hoofs; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a iull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a side view of a shoe secured to the foot or hoof of a horse according to my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the front part of the same, taken in the line x x, Fig. 4; Fig. 3, a vertical section of one side of. the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. l; Fig. 4, an under view or an inverted plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts. y

This invention relates to a new and improved inode of securing shoes to the feet or hoofs of horses, whereby the use of nails are entirely dispensed with and the shoes rendered capable of being readily secured to and detached from the feet or hoofs.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a horseshoe, which may be constructed of the usual form, and provided with both heel and toe calks, if desired. Heel' calks a a are shown in Figs. l and 4.. In the upper surface of the shoe A there are made three recesses, b, to receive bent bars B C D, to serve as fastenings. The bar B is at the toe of the shoe, and it is so bent as to have a horizontal portion, c, to iit into the recess b, designed to receive it, a hook portion, d, to clasp underneath the inner part of the shoe, and an inclined upper part, e, which abuts y against the front side of the hooi', and is provided with spurs f, to penetrate into the latter. The bar C is at one side of the shoe, and is constructed precisely like B, with a horizontal portion, c', hook d', and an inclined portion, c', and is fitted to the shoe and hoof a little back of the center of its side. The bar D is composed of two parts, one of which, g, cor

responds to the portion e of B, and the other part, h, corresponds to the horizontal portion c of B, with a hook, fi', at its inner end. (See Fig. 3,.) The outer end of the part h is made broader than that of c of the bar B, and is formed with an eye, j, to admit of the lower end of the part g passing through it, and a screw, la, passes through g below the eye j and bears against the side of the shoe A, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

From the above description it will be seen that the bars B C D will firmly secure the shoe to the foot or hoof, the spurs f serving to secure the bars to the hoof, and the hooks at the inner ends of thc horizontal parts of the bars serving to secure the shoe to the latter, the parts all being firmly bound or clamped by screwing up the screw 7c.

By having the horizontal parts of the bars fitted in recesses Z) in the upper surface of the shoe the former are made flush with the latter, so that it may abut snugly against the bottom of the hoof.

In order to detach the shoe from the hoof, all that is required is simply to unserew the screw 7c and remove the two parts of the bar D, and then shove the shoe laterally, so that the bar C may be removed, and the shoe will drop oit. The arrangement is extremely simple, and does not involve much expense in the manufacture, and admits of the shoe being secured to and detached from the hooi'1 by any one accustomed to horses.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Securing shoes to the feet or hoofs of horses by means of bars, bent or curved, so that their lower parts may clutch the shoe or hook over the same, and their upper parts made to penetrate into the side of the hoof, in combination with the bar, formed of two parts iitted together and arranged with a screw to serve as a clamp, substantially as herein set forth.

C. VEITMAN.

Vitnesses:

JAMES JAMIsoN, y AUeUs'rUs WEITMAN. 

